Since the Microsoft-Yahoo search merger two weeks ago, journalists will not stop saying “GOOGLE IS DOOMED.” I think that these journalists need to do some more research and look into something more the ComScore results. Ask webmasters like myself who run numerous websites and generate income off them, where does your tarffic come from. I will say google, by 10x the amount Bing or Yahoo sends.

Once I see the stats start growing, then I think it will be a good time to start talking about Google loosing market share. People are going to be with Google for the long haul, Why you ask?

1. They trust Google
2. Why change? “If its not broken, why fix it?”
3. Google has Adsense, largest publisher advertising network. (Highest Paying)

I can practically point and choose what site I want ads on because of Google massive amount of AdSense users. Miscrosoft adCenter is small, and from what I hear, not good paying.

Tell me that I am favoring Google, well, I AM. I get my traffic from the and they provide great results with a minimal design. PERIOD.

If you are in the internet marketing industry, this topic always raises hell. Automatic blogging, is a blog set up to parse and re-post RSS feeds. A script will extract a summary of a post, and provide a link back to the source. The auto blog does this in hopes of driving traffic from Google. The most common scripts for auto blogging run about $50.

With the traffic from search engines, the auto blog owner attempts to lure the visitor to the ads or an affiliate banner for a related niche. This will generate money for the auto blogger.

Here are the topics people start asking questions about

1. Is this ethical? You are taking an excerpt of text from an author’s post, re-posting it on your site, and linking back. This could be free promotion, or lost profits for the author.
2. It is profitable? I would have to go with, YES. Lets figure this out. A beginner hosting account with 1&1 internet, with a domain included is $3.99 a month. This equates to about $48 a year. at $0.13 a day, its easy to cover this cost with AdSense or similar ad networks.
3. Its this spam? This is up in the air for how you interpret what “spam” means. Some auto blogs are so covered in ads you can even read the short excerpt for the post. In my opinion that is a spammy site.

Please leave a comment if you run auto blogs and let us know what scripts you use and how it has worked out for you.

Typical auto-blogged post, note the link to the original source